Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Beautiful Ukrainian Poppy!

Happy Wednesday All,

It's hump day and a short work week! Yay!!!

Today I would like to share with you a poppy flower card. Now, being Ukrainian, I was thrilled when Sue Wilson came out with the Exquisite Poppy die set; because every Ukrainian needs EVERYTHING poppies! I myself have a large embroidered framed poppies piece (38" X 18"), silk poppies in an Ukrainian vase and even a painting of poppies! I was so excited about being able to make poppy cards now!!!

I started cutting the flowers and was not pleased at all with the way they looked. They just did not look like poppies. I tried red card stock, then white card stock. Tried molding them on my mat, and still they didn't look like poppies. I just couldn't figure out what was wrong. I was so discouraged.

I couldn't sleep because of my dilema until I thought of doing a search on youtube! I was so hoping that Sue Wilson used them in a video. And sure enough she did! She created a beautiful card showcasing 3 poppies. You can see the card and video HERE.

Sue's tip on cutting the poppies did the trick!!! She used crepe paper!!! Of course! It made the flower realistic and lightweight! I couldn't wait to get to the Dollar Store the next day to get some crepe paper streamers!!! And here is my card; the crepe paper made ALL the difference.

I'm very pleased with the way it turned out! And it's perfect for ANY occasion!

ABOUT ME

Greetings! I have been crafting all my life! As a young girl I did embroidery, and counted cross stitch. I loved to color especially with Venus colored pencils and their color by number kits. I also made Pysanky, the beautiful Ukrainian Easter eggs. Therefore, when I had a girl of my own, it was only natural to look for crafts that we could do together. We created aprons and sweatshirts with fabric paint. When we vacationed in the Barbados we learned about batik from the wonderful activities director at the resort and we have several samples we made, one from each vacation year!
I taught Maria how to do Pysanky and every Easter vacation, Julie, Maria’s best friend would come over and all 3 of us would write these eggs! Such great memories.
Lastly, I found out about rubber stamping and Maria and I shared that new passion. My love for stamping and paper crafting grrew so much that I opened a brick and mortar store from 2004-2017 and had a wonderful experience learning the retail business end of it. The best part of that experience was meeting the most awesome people who still are dear friends!!! And to think, it all started with a few supplies in a shoe box!

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BASIC CLASS KIT

Your basic class kit should include: your favorite scissors, kraft-knife, small cutting mat, bone folder, pencil, ruler, a stylus to form flowers, molding pad, quickie glue pen, personal trimmer, and adhesive. Also, lately we have been using the craft sheet. Other items you may want to have: personal Scor-it, some colored pencils, markers and anything else you cannot live without !